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  1. Re:Cut and paste are not mentioned. on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 1

    Thank you for this. This type of clipboard daemon was in KDE but it was badly done and I had to disable it. I hope that this is better.

  2. Cut and paste are not mentioned. on Gnome's Nice Little GUI Perks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm using stock Redhat 9

    I do not understand why cut and paste cannot be corrected. If a program is closed, what was just copied from it disappears from the buffer. Some programs can only do middle mouse button and others it's only via keyboard, some only from the menu some will do it from the right mouse.

    Some of this is the application programmers fault and some is the window manager.

    Other problems, why are programmers allowed to restrict what window functions I am allowed. If I want it to be minimized I want it minimized. I've seen this done on Gaim's away screen and it's very annoying. I would like to disable an application programmers access to these things either permanently or via user settable controls.

  3. FAQ about Stryker on Robots for No Man's Land · · Score: 3, Informative


    http://www.johnringo.com/stryker.htm

    This article/FAQ is very unkind to the Stryker.

  4. TerraServer Re:"A" is in Dulles, VA on Fort N.O.C.'s Security in Obscurity · · Score: 1

    And a look from above.
    http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addressim age.aspx ?t=1&s=10&Lon=-77.41223707&Lat=39.03094526&Alon=-7 7.41223707&Alat=39.03094526&w=1&opt=0&ref=A%7c2134 5+Ridgetop+Cir%2c+Sterling%2c+VA+20166

  5. PBMR on US Army Pursues Hydrogen Fuel Concepts · · Score: 1

    Well a pebble bed modular reactor (nuclear) can be 9-feet in diameter by 24-feet in height. Make the tank Bolo sized and forget all these lesser storage solutions.

    http://www.pbmr.com

  6. Vernor Vinge is an oracle. on Lie Detector Glasses Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    He predicted this in his most excellent book
    "A Deepness in the Sky" which is a in the same universe as a "Fire Upon the Deep".

    He gives a whole new meaning to the word "Focus".

    And the dog critters are cute and an aurally distributed neural net.

  7. This is just a flash app. on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1

    Disable flash and you have no worries. In Linux you can just delete the plugins.

    Flash sucks.

  8. Re:Google does it again... on Google Eyes New Email Service, Expansion · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your site has

    "Using the advanced features of the toolbar requires that you send information about the pages you are viewing to Google. Be sure to disable the advanced features if this is an issue for you."

    I for one do not appreciate privacy invading garbage to be required before I can use something.

  9. Mozilla still loves to get flashed. on Pop-Up Ads Lead to Consumer Revolt, Ad-Blocking · · Score: 1

    I want to block DOMAINS from access to plugins. Especially the flash crap.

  10. Lousy system. on Copyrighted Haiku Delivers Spam Through Filters · · Score: 1

    If the email is signed cryptographically by a known good source it gets through. If it is not it gets the whitelist treatment.

    No public magic words but solid mathematics will win.

  11. Banned! No Military service for Ritalin users. on Neural Feedback Training as Therapy for ADHD? · · Score: 1

    I've seen non drugged dumb, home schooled, "attention deficit' kids that exceed many public schools standards when tested. It's all about time, attention to the child (yes teachers are deficit in this) and behavior modification.

    http://www.nfgcc.org/64.htm

    When Christopher Gore tried to enlist in the Coast Guard in 1994, he was rejected for having a history of drug use.

    But the clean-cut Dillard, Ga. youth was no junkie. The drug he had used was Ritalin, a medication prescribed for attention-deficit disorders.

    Scores of young men and women across the country are learning that the Ritalin they took as teenagers is stopping them from serving their country or starting a military career.

    "I was shocked and disappointed," said Gore, 22, who is about to start a job selling radio ads. "I didn't expect [Ritalin] to affect my future like this."

    http://www.nfgcc.org/

    "The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children was formed over 30 years ago. The main goal of The Foundation was to get much needed information to the parents of gifted children. The need is still there. Many gifted children are being destroyed in the public education system. Many gifted children are being falsely labeled with ADD as well as ADHD. And many parents are unaware their child/children could be potentially gifted. The Foundation's main objective is to reach out and help these precious children. The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children is a non-profit, non-sectarian, organization. Please feel free to download the complete packet of information provided by the Foundation as well as the informative news articles."

  12. Re:RTFPR! on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    There has to be another chemical in coffee that has a sympathetic effect with the caffeine.

    I've taken a caffeine tablet and not felt as much effect from the pills as I have from a cup of coffee.

    This is subjective but finding this chemical would make those mints appear on the DEA's most wanted list.

  13. Faraday Cage is the answer on RFID Casino Chips · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Come on! It's simple to construct a faraday cage to thwart this.

    Now who will be the new up and coming entreprenure who sells 'chip holders' for all those big spenders who want some privacy?

  14. Re:Industrial Programs? on DOS Emulation Under Linux - a Simple Guide · · Score: 1

    I would like an emulator for linux on linux.

    Old code that will no longer compile and that no one wants to fix to compile is a growing problem. There are some executables I'd like to run but they are not statically linked so the libraries are needed as are other resources.

    I think that some of the older linux systems just won't work on new hardware. I've not tried to get one to work that was older than 2.2.x.

    Actually this is more complex than I thought.

  15. Earlier there was a link to these engines. on Warning: Exploding Batteries · · Score: 1

    These don't seem to have the problem of fuel cells and would be difficult to make explode.

    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,4840 0, 00.html

  16. I adore the Amiga on Former Netscape Executive gives $4000 to AmiZilla · · Score: 1

    Expense has thwarted my aquiring it.

    I appreciate this fellows offer and will remember it.

  17. Vinagerette on Tale of Two Tech Hubs: Silicon Glen & Chandiga · · Score: 1

    This is a quote:

    "I won't get into near term specifics but a comment that my brother made is apt. "Most of the problems of the third world will be solved when you can get three types of raspberry vinagrette in a small town in the middle of Cambodia...""
    --John Ringo

    http://www.baen.com

  18. Shades of IcePirates on Using Cellophane For 3D Displays On Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    The polarization 3D effect causes severe headaches and eye pain in some people. Stick with red/green red/green is your friend, red/green ask for it.

    IcePirates was that stupid, ignorant, lame, ugly flick that used these to steal water from earth when there was plenty just floating around in space. Or something equally bad.

  19. Baen gives them away when... on Are We About To Enter The Age of Book Piracy? · · Score: 1

    www.baen.com and check out the free books.

  20. I'll keep the brilliant the rest get eaten by: on Too Much Tech Diminishes Work Relationships? · · Score: 1

    http://www.kevinandkell.com/
    http://www.sluggy.co m/
    http://www.schlockmercenary.com
    http://www.vi ncifruit.com/
    http://www.comics.com/comics/roseis rose/index.html

    For when you OD on the above.
    http://jack.keenspace.com/

  21. This does not exist. on There Is No Single Instant In Time · · Score: 1

    http://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/course/phy2002/forum/me ssages/300.html

  22. Re:googleplex insanity Re:70 Quintillion on 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars Out There · · Score: 1

    Oh, damn, the spelling. Thanks

    There is a URL for this.

    http://www.googol.com/

  23. Some of us old farts do too damn ignorant media on Youth Spend More Time on Web Than TV · · Score: 1

    Not too old though, only those of us who teethed on vacuum tubes and 90 ohm bedistors and stuff.

  24. googleplex insanity Re:70 Quintillion on 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars Out There · · Score: 1

    This will teach me not to count after eating potato chips.

    That was one right, munch...repeat...

    Ok, trivia time!

    What is a google?

    I got chewed out for using this numbers name by a math teacher.

    If you use Google to find the number that is named google you will go blind so here is a ural:
    http://newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/math99/ma th99147 .htm

  25. Re:!sdrawkcaB on First Human Tongue Transplant · · Score: 1

    Hello kind person stefanlasiewski,

    Please give us an example showing the results of when they install the tongue upside down and backwards. :-P